Bibles and Bridges

by Angelo Head
(Aurora, CO USA)

Happy March, Everyone!


I hope your February was pleasant. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our new friends from around the world who have chosen to take time out of their day to listen to us. With that said, this month I have a story/testimony I would like to share with you. It’s about a dear friend of mine that has lived a rather extraordinary life. I hope that her life’s story will inspire, encourage, and bless you and those around you. In respect of her identity, I will refer to her as Sugar.



Now I met Sugar somewhere between April and May of 2006 at church. It was the first day of registration for our youth ministry’s annual summer camp, Flashpoint. Sugar had become good friends with Renee for whom I had a major crush on, so naturally I was polite and invited her to fill out an application. She was more than enthused. But I hadn’t noticed because my attention was on Renee. The next time I noticed Sugar was the day we left for camp. Unlike many of my friends whose parents “looked” like them, Sugar kissed and hugged her parents who resembled very little of her, at least to the naked eye. Sugar’s parents were white. And as you could imagine, she was Black. This interested me, so I made it my mission to become acquainted with her at camp. There’s something about the spirit of God when you’re secluded from a mass of people than when you’re amongst them that is stronger, clearer, and ever-lasting. That was exactly what we experienced for seven days along with worship, power-packed messages, and friendships that still exist till this day. On the last day of camp, we all exchanged contact information and tears on each other’s camp shirts, and left with many memories and high hopes for next year. It’s these encounters that I honestly think that God allows to take place so that we have something to encourage us when the storms start rolling in.


About four months after camp that year, Sugar met this guy and within a year was engaged and married. The years that followed were not without immense challenge for Sugar, all in which included losing her first son to Sudden Instant Death Syndrome (S.I.D.S.). Shunned from many friends and family, Sugar kept her eyes on God. See, what I haven’t told you is that Sugar was adopted. She didn’t know much more about her family than what her adoptive parents told her. Despite everything, Sugar continued to find some bridge to her past. Last month that bridge was built.

Bored and curious one day while on the Internet, Sugar decided to type in the only name she had that could link her to her mother into Facebook. A few results popped up and then Sugar’s heart skipped a beat. There before her was the name she had been dreaming about since she was a child. After about six hours of emailing, text messages, and phone calls Sugar had been reunited with her birth mother. With her eighteenth birthday right around the corner, this fairy tale reunion couldn’t have come at a better time. Amongst a few other great things going on in Sugar’s life, there is a high chance that they will get to see each other around Sugar’s birthday.

Friends, God has a plan for everything. His ways are not our ways, just as his thoughts are not our thoughts. Therefore, we may and will not understand everything he does or allows to happen. I suppose in parallel to Sugar’s story is the story of Job in the Old Testament. Job was a wealthy yet faithful servant of God, worshiping him with all of his riches and giving praises to his name. One day the enemy approached God and requested to test Job of his allegiance with the exception of not killing him. With God’s approval, Job endured the death of his children, loss of all his wealth, and mockery from his wife and friends. But not once did God curse the Lord’s name. In reward for his diligence, God blessed him with double which he had lost.

What has God allowed to be removed from your life? How will you stay strong through this time of testing and continue giving honor to God?


May the Lord lift his face upon you,
May the Lord make his light shine upon you
And give you peace.




A.O.